Worker loses three fingers at timber frame factory

A timber frame company has been fined after an employee had three fingers severed by a panel saw at work.
David Broadway, 36, had been working at construction supplier Pemberton Timber Frame Limited at its site in Ramsgate on the morning of 4 January 2023.
He was operating a panel saw and asked to cut down the thickness of a length of timber – known as a rip cut. This process involved passing a length of timber through the panel saw multiple times as the timber exceeded the depth the blade